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How to Use RoboCopy to Backup Data

RoboCopy is a built-in Windows application that can be used to copy data from a source location to a destination location.

I used the following Robocopy command to copy data from a shared directory called SOURCE on SOURCE-SRV to the destination folder called DESTINATION on the current server. All security permissions are kept intact.
E:\>robocopy \\SOURCE-SRV\SOURCE E:\DESTINATION /E /ZB /DCOPY:T /COPYALL /R:1 /W:1 /V /TEE /LOG:robocopy_archive.Log

Note that this assumes the current server has access to the source server. Please refer to the RoboCopy documentation for the switch usages.

The log file robocopy_archive.log is stored in the current directory which is the E: drive.